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As A Rule We Are Unable To Notice Reprints, But

Mr. William Hyde's illustrations to The Nature Poems of George Meredith (A. Constable and Co., 12a. 6d. net) are of so fine a quality that we make an exception. Is there any one......

A History Of Art. By Dr. G. Carotti. Vol. I.,

"Ancient Art." With 540 Illustrations. (Duckworth and Co. 5s. net.)-The amount of information which has been compressed into this small book is astonishing. Among the......

The Arts And Crafts Of Older Spain. By Leonard Williams.

3 vols. "The World of Art Series." (T. N. Emilia. 15s. net.)—The Moorish element which coloured all the early arts of Spain gave to them a peculiar individuality which separates......

Messrs. Black Have Added Two More Volumes To Their Series

of what we might call illustrated topography,-The Highlands and Islands, Painted by W. H. Smith and Described by A. R. Hope- Moncrieff (10s. net), and Surrey, Painted by Sutton......

The Artists Living At Newlyn Have Issued An Illustrated...

The Paper Chase, published by Mrs. Stanhope Forbes (2s. 6d.) The most interesting of the illustrations are those which are produced by means of wood-blocks. The cart and horses......

Artists Of The Italian Renaissance. Translated From The...

Arranged by E. L. Seeley. (Chatto and Windus. 7s. 6d. net.)-The various material has been cleverly put together so as to form a narrative. In the chapter on Julius II., for......

Enamelling. By Lewis F. Day. (b. T. Batsford. 7s. 6d.

net.)-In this volume enamelling is dealt with from its historic rather than from its technical point of view. Mr. Day treats the beginnings of the art in early times as the......

Pictures And Their Value. Vol. Ii., 1903-7. (h. C. Digby.

10s. 6d.)-Here we have arranged alphabetically a list of pictures sold at auction, with the prices realised, making a very useful work of reference for picture-buyers.......

The Masterpieces Of Versailles. By Gustave Geffroy....

3s. 6d.)-This bilingual book is fully illustrated from photographs. Here we can see the architecture, statues, pictures, and gardens of what might be called the inner shrine of......

Florence. By Edward Hutton. (methuen And Co. 6s.)- Runny...

in Italy. By Elise Lathrop. (T. Werner Laurie. 10s. 6d. net.)-The Old Venetian Palaces. By Thomas Okey. Illus- trated by Trevor Haddon. (J. M. Dent and Co. 21s. net.)-These......

Are Clear And From Good Models, The Directions For Making

use of them are short and to the point, and there is a brief account of the principles of ornament.......

A Catalogue Raisonne Of The Works Of The Most Eminent

Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century. By Hofstede de Groot. 25s. net.)-This work is invaluable for the minute study of the painters Jan Steen, Metsu, Dou, Pieter de Hooch,......

Royal Academy Pictures And Sculpture, 1908. (cassell And...

net.)-It is a pity that these well-produced illustrations should not, except in a very few instances, deal with good pictures. But this is the fault of the Academy and not of......

The Golden Treasury. Illustrated By R. Anning Bell. (j. M.

Dent and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)-These illustrations might almost be called improvisations on the themes of the poems, for they are slight water-colour drawings. All the same, many......

The Secrets Of The Vatican. By Douglas Sladen. (hurst And

Blackett. 21s. net.)-The author at the outset tells us that by "secrets" he does not mean scandals. Rather it is the less known and accessible parts of the Vatican which Mr.......

National And Social Problems.

National and Social Problems. By Frederic Harrison. (Mac- millan and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)-Mr. Frederic Harrison would be a more instructive teacher, and, generally, a more useful......

The Cicerone : An Art Guide To Painting In Italy.

By J. Burck- hardt. Edited by P. G. Konody. (T. Werner Laurie. 6s. net.)- Considering how often the editor has had to correct the German critic of fifty years ago, it is a......

By Italian Seas. By E. C. Peixotto. (hodder And Stoughton.

12s. net.)-Mr. Peixotto can draw well, as his courtyard of the University of Genoa shows, and the chapter called " Giuseppe's Christmas" is a charming account of a poor family......

The Story Of Milan, By Ella Noyes, Illustrated By Dora

Noyes, "The Mediaeval Town Series" (J. M. Dent and Co., 4s. 6d. net), is an excellent guide-book of the historical kind, for the past history of Milan, not its present life, is......

Murray's Handbook Of Rome And The Campagna. (e. Stanford....

maps are a groat feature of the present edition, and they are numerous, clear, and detailed. Those travellers who wish to visit the Campagna and the surrounding mountains will......